Talk:Yasuke/Primary sources

Primary sources

• Jesuit Cartas from Frois, Mexia
• Solier
• Shincho Koki (published version(s?))
• Shincho Koki (unpublished Maeda clan version) NOTE: We have this in a secondary source, Professor Hiraku Kaneko's book, 『織田信長という歴史 －「信長記」の彼方へ』 (Oda Nobunaga to iu Rekishi - "Shinchōki" no Kanata e, "The History of Oda Nobunaga: Beyond the Shinchōki").
• Ietada's Diary

Working materials from the talk page

• Luis Fróes, 14 April 1581:

Fróes, Luis (1598). "Carta que o padre Luis Frões escreueo do Miàco a quatorze de Abril de 1581. a outro padre no mesmo Iapão.". Segunda parte das cartas de Iapão que escreuerão os padres, & irmãos da Companhia de Iesus. Livro primeiro (in Portuguese). Évora: Manuel de Lyra. pp. 2, 2v, 3v.

• Luis Fróes, 19 May 1581:

Fróes, Luis (1598). "Carta do padre Luis Frões, escrita em Quitanòxo no Iapão a dezanoue de Maio de 81. a outro padre no mesmo Iapaõ.". Segunda parte das cartas de Iapão que escreuerão os padres, & irmãos da Companhia de Iesus. Livro primeiro (in Portuguese). Évora: Manuel de Lyra. p. 9v.

• Lourenço Mexia, 8 October 1581:

Mexia, Lourenço (1598). "Carta que o padre Lourenço Mexía escreueo de Funày ao padre Pero da Fonseca a oito de Outubro de 1581". Segunda parte das cartas de Iapão que escreuerão os padres, & irmãos da Companhia de Iesus. Livro primeiro (in Portuguese). Évora: Manuel de Lyra. p. 17.

• Luis Fróes, 5 November 1582; on the death of Nobunaga:

Fróes, Luis (1598). "Carta do padre Luis Froes sobre a morte de Nobunànga, pera o muito Reuerendo, padre Geral da Cõpanhia de IESUS, de Cochinoçú, aos cinco de Noue[m]bro de 1582". Segunda parte das cartas de Iapão que escreuerão os padres, & irmãos da Companhia de Iesus. Livro primeiro (in Portuguese). Évora: Manuel de Lyra. p. 65v.

• Ōta, Gyūichi, Shinchō Kōki, 1622.

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• Solier, François (1627–1629). Histoire Ecclesiastique des Isles et Royaumes du Japon (in French). Sébastien Cramoisy. Archived from the original on 8 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
• Crasset, Jean (1925). 日本教会史 (Histoire de l'eglise du Japon) (in Japanese). 太陽堂書店 (Taiyōdō Bookshop). Archived from the original on 19 September 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
• Cooper, Michael (1965). They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543–1640. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04509-2.
• Fujita, Midori (2005). アフリカ「発見」日本におけるアフリカ像の変遷 [Discover Africa―History of African image in Japan (World History series)] (in Japanese). Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 978-4-00-026853-0.

Much of what is known about Yasuke appears in fragmentary accounts in the letters of the Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis, Ōta Gyūichi's Shinchō Kōki (信長公記, Nobunaga Official Chronicle), Matsudaira Ietada's Matsudaira Ietada Nikki (松平家忠日記, Matsudaira Ietada Diary), Jean Crasset's Histoire de l'église du Japon and François Solier's Histoire Ecclesiastique des Isles et Royaumes du Japon. His confirmed period of stay in Japan was about three years, from 17 August 1579 to 21 June 1582.

• Kaneko, Hiraku (2009). 織田信長という歴史 － 「信長記」の彼方へ [The History of Oda Nobunaga: Beyond the Shinchōki] (in Japanese). Iwanami Shoten. p. 311. ISBN 978-4-585-05420-7.

• Cartas, 1598, II f. 3v; re-printed in Manoel, Jeronymo P. A. Da Camara, Missoes dos Jesuitas no Oriente nos seculos XVI e XVII, 1894, p. 119; in English: Cooper, Michael (1965). They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543–1640. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-520-04509-5 read online